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Speaker 1: But have you noticed a lot of stuff's coming down?

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Speaker 1: The old PGG slash Virtual and retro slash Evolution Vets

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Speaker 1: building on Tancred Street across from the sports hall there,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty much gone. Was actually sharing in this with

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Speaker 1: our Drive host Peter Mack as he brought into the

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Speaker 1: studio yesterday. And also the big one that kicked off

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Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, Sparrows on the corner of

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Speaker 1: Eastern Moore.

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Speaker 2: My dad would have been interested in that because he

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Speaker 2: managed Hayes and hay Rights across the road, and that

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Speaker 2: building came down years ago and was replaced by the

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Speaker 2: new Farmers. And now of course you got Sparris coming

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Speaker 2: down and going to get replaced by a lovely new

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Speaker 2: bright modern store there. So that whole, in fact, the

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Speaker 2: whole of East Street is looking really good. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's been going for a while. The Tech building there,

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Speaker 2: which was my old school back it, well, I went

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Speaker 2: to that school for the first term of the third

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Speaker 2: form and then by the second term we'd all moved

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Speaker 2: up to the new Ashburton College, which is now slated

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Speaker 2: for demolition and has been partially renewed. So that makes

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Speaker 2: me feel reasonably ancient.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So the old Polyteic buildings was always that site.

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Speaker 2: Yeah oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that was That was the

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Speaker 2: college and then after that it was a it was

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Speaker 2: a function venue. A guy called Gordon Robinson, I think

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Speaker 2: his name was Robertson Robinson. He was a good fellow

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Speaker 2: and he did a lot of catering around town. He

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Speaker 2: had that as a bit of a venue. It was

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Speaker 2: called Chartwell upstairs and a lot of people got married,

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Speaker 2: had their winning anniversaries, all that sort of stuff up there.

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Speaker 2: Chart Well, chart Well, that's what it was. Chartwell for

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Speaker 2: a lot of.

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Speaker 1: The known for I think to the olds and I

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Speaker 1: have all these glorious memories as a kid of climbing

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Speaker 1: those steers or remember when they used to have the

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Speaker 1: mobility escalated thing.

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Speaker 2: Please don't play on that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well we did, and that's why they took it away.

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Speaker 1: And you go up there and it was always a

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Speaker 1: thrill because you're your main And then they had like

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Speaker 1: the salad bar with the chippies, and I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: us Howden Brothers were the reason why they put that

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Speaker 1: we label on. You know, you can only pile your

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Speaker 1: plate this high, ah, you can only be this high

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Speaker 1: to leave the buffet.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can imagine that. So between the between the

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Speaker 2: electric chair that went up the rail and the meals,

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Speaker 2: you the Howden Brothers bag of the whole.

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Speaker 1: We were the catalyst for a lot of change at

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Speaker 1: the MSA. But what was Chart well known for how

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Speaker 1: do you mean it was? Didn't have a signature dish

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Speaker 1: or it was?

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Speaker 2: It was he was a mobile caterer, so he could

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Speaker 2: be doing the pindava's a M P and H, or

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Speaker 2: he could be doing something on his own venue. It

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Speaker 2: was just a good, you know, meet three venge kind

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Speaker 2: of caterer.

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Speaker 1: Hard to get the trailer up on the second floor.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was yeah, yeah, yeah. So that

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Speaker 2: was that and like you know where all those other

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Speaker 2: buildings where that was our woodwork. We used to go

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Speaker 2: there from from from primary school, Hampshire schooling up there

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Speaker 2: to do tech you know, to do woodwork manual training.

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Speaker 1: It was called bring a bank for all the memories

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Speaker 1: now must have. Matt personally didn't spend much time in

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Speaker 1: those old polytech buildings. So what about you, what's coming

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Speaker 1: back for yourself? Please take a drivetown Nostalgia lame with

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Speaker 1: us spot her on Facebook. Thanks to our friends at Speksavers,

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Speaker 1: Ronda Morning, Good morning. So you were one of those

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Speaker 1: who lined up at what was chart Well for a wedding?

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Speaker 3: We did. Yes, it was Chartwell the place to go.

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Speaker 3: You know, it was one of the top of the

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Speaker 3: lists to go to and we had a wedding reception here.

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Speaker 1: What made the venue unique?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, to be really honest, No, I think

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Speaker 3: it was just rude a mouth. People liked it, and

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Speaker 3: you know, and if you ask people were the best

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Speaker 3: place to go, people said Chartwell.

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Speaker 1: It was the top, top floor, right, Yes, it was

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Speaker 1: the top floor. You would have had a bit of

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Speaker 1: a view. Was it. Was it a good venue in

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Speaker 1: the sense that, you know, depending on the type of

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Speaker 1: the year, it wasn't too cold or too warm.

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Speaker 3: No, we got married in September. We found it fine.

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Speaker 3: I had no problem with it. Everything was great. You

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Speaker 3: had it was very spacious. You had your dining area

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Speaker 3: at the end and they just sort of opened up

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Speaker 3: big doors so that you've got to have your dance area.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really good, good floor for dancing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I just remember my flat girls getting all over

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Speaker 3: my wedding dress.

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Speaker 1: Oh, as part of the fun was it was it?

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Speaker 1: Gordon from Peter Mack's memory that did the catering for you.

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Speaker 3: No, I honestly can't remember that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was good.

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Speaker 3: I was very young, very.

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Speaker 1: Young, So that that's going back roughly four decades and

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Speaker 1: then a little closer to now. You also studied in

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Speaker 1: those policic buildings.

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Speaker 3: Too, Yes, I did. I did my art studies in

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Speaker 3: the politics buildings.

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Speaker 1: Wow, what do you remember from that?

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Speaker 3: I just remember well, at the time, I wanted to

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Speaker 3: learn a bit more about art and I heard about

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Speaker 3: I think that's an aoreqi. I think the politics started

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Speaker 3: off in their before they moved down to Alpha Alpa

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Speaker 3: Virus Road, and so I heard about it and went

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Speaker 3: along there. And that was in the top story as well.

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Speaker 1: Oh it was up the top. Did they have those

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Speaker 1: old wooden desks?

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Speaker 3: No, we'd have had aasels and things like that because

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Speaker 3: we were painting.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah right, you guys with Yeah, the antsy

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Speaker 1: ones were there, a lot of students, like it was

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Speaker 1: quite sort of busy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the room was really full. Yeah, it was really full.

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Speaker 3: We did wance to weight and love it yep. And

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Speaker 3: I just went on and got my diploma and painting

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Speaker 3: after day when it went Gandale for Forest Ride.

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Speaker 1: Oh good on you see just so it go into

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Speaker 1: an eir Ra.

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Speaker 3: I know, I know, I was quite saying. Literally I

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Speaker 3: packed up there not long ago before they started demolishing

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Speaker 3: it in sorts of photos.

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Speaker 1: On you if the sentiment's sake,